bindings /perl / slackware 14.0 / GSoC

[Olly Betts]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 04:51:00PM +0000, James Aylett wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 11:46:35AM +0000, Eric Lindblad wrote:
> 
> > I suggest a small xapian GSoC project to get xapian-bindings for
> > perl to pass tests on Slackware Linux 14.0, with a follow up on
> > version 14.1. The xapian-bindings 1.2.21 failed a number of perl
> > tests on 14.0, and with 1.2.22 still fail. I cannot be involved in
> > the project.
> 
> Eric -- that's a good idea for a warm-up project (it's probably not
> big enough to occupy a student for an entire summer). I've checked
> back through the mailing lists, but I can't find any test failure
> output. If you have any handy, I can attach that to a new bug report,
> or if not I'll open it without that detail. Either way we can point
> people towards it.

Indeed - if you want a bug fixed, the correct approach is to actually
report it, not to propose it as a GSoC project.

Cheers,
    Olly